Pleasure Quotes

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen

Good, Stupid, Person

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison

Everything, Before, Soul

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
Groucho Marx

Woman, Smoke, Cigar

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Voltaire

God, Nothing, Made

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
H. L. Mencken

Love, Women, Men

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
Walt Disney

Story, Bring, Animation

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
Voltaire

God, Whether, Known

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.
Camille Claudel

Character, Greatest, Everyone

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
Voltaire

Necessary, Mankind, Instrument

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie

Art, Giving, Essence

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
Martin Luther

God, Pride, Riches

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
Aldous Huxley

Pain, Laughter, Human

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

Freedom, True, Liberty

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
T. S. Eliot

Christmas, Moving, Between

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison

Success, Work, Money

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison

Success, Work, Greatest

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard

Men, Past, Haste

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Salvador Dali

Morning, Experience, Again

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Charles Darwin

Science, Long, Often

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

Modern, Speed, Genuinely

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

Seems, Modern, Speed

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
Donald Trump

Work, Trying, Balance

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
Sigmund Freud

Happy, May, Give

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Victor Hugo

Thought, Labor, Intellect

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson

Pain, Gratitude, Revenge

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
Marquis de Sade

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Ambrose Bierce

Person, Himself, Weak

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.
Hillary Clinton

Great, Brain, Try

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
Andrew Jackson

Fun, Nothing, Lots

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